Maria and Piper crossed paths months ago at Blue-Star farm, and they connected to one another. Piper opened up a channel in Maria has deepened, and when she saw Maria today, she came up to her and pressed  her head against Maria’s a way horses have of connecting with human beings. Maria closed her eyes and I could see something passing between them. This is new to me, and still strange, I am learning to accept it and trying to understand it.

When I met him in New York, Chief Avrol Looking Horse, the spiritual leader of the Sioux Nation, told me it was a natural thing for horses to bond powerfully with human beings, I should accept it. My connection with the horses seems spiritual to me, even ideological, not  literal in my mind. It is a difficult thing for me to understand, a beautiful thing to see. Perhaps Maria’s experience can lead me there. I sometimes think I am too old to do what she does, but perhaps that is just a hiding place.